Level: 9
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
Level: 9
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
The players are back and the cards are once again in the air.
The speed of play in today's tournament has been quite staggering. The big screen currently shows 222 players remaining which means we are rapidly approaching the money. The top 162 players will cash in this event and there is a real possibility of that happening this evening.
The rate of attrition is a credit to the players as the play has been extremely aggressive today. We've seen a ton of three and four betting preflop, and players prepared to stick it in light which has made for some entertaining, fast-paced poker.
Jerilyn Totani moved her last chips in preflop with and found herself racing against an opponent's . The board ran out to give her opponent a set and the pot, as Totani exited the Pavillion Room just short of the cash.
Catching the action on the turn on a board of , Eric Buchman called a bet of 2,800 from an early position opponent before the completed the board on the river.
Action checked to Buchman who fired 6,000 which was enough to take it down. He's up to 73,000.
When we arrived at the table the board was reading and Jorge Arias was facing a 5,000-chip bet from his opponent in the small blind.
With more than 9,000 chips already in the pot, the Team PokerStars Pro made the call and tabled , good enough to win the pot.
Jorge Arias is now up to 40,000 chips.
Steve Gross raised it up to 2,200 from the cutoff with Angus Lynn the lone caller in the small blind.
They took a flop of and action checked to Gross.
"How much you got there?" he asked his opponent. It was about 6,000 and Gross decided to put Lynn all in. The only problem was that Lynn was sitting there with for the stone-cold nuts. Oops!
Gross showed and was unable to improve on the turn and river.
Lynn doubles to 19,000 with Gross down to 25,000.
Adam Levy and Matt Hawrilenko ended up all in preflop, and Levy was facing the elimination.
Showdown
Levy:
Hawrilenko:
Board:
"I lost a flip, whatever!", said Levy before he left the Pavillion Room.
Matt Hawrilenko is now up to 56,000 chips.
With a raise to 1,900 from the cutoff, Steve Gross three-bet to 5,400 from the small blind. The cutoff made the call and they saw a flop of .
Gross led out with a bet of 2,600 before the cutoff popped it up to 9,300. Gross then declared he was all in for 33,000 but his opponent insta-called.
Gross:
Opponent:
Gross had pulled a move from left field, but had outs to the flush against his opponent's flopped straight. However the turn and were heart-less leaving Gross to exit the tournament.
Jeff Williams has been sent crashing to the rail in a big three-way clash with all the chips in preflop.
It was Williams' up against the of Michael Kucinski and a third player with .
The board fell and the queens of Kucinski hold as he moves up to 116,000 chips.